Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-22
CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS.
!na'ysis By son'hernor Of the Conled
crate army.

!na'ysis by son,bernor Of the Conied.
cratic army.
new YORK, Sept. I3-''You Gle away
cf in your notions aDout the Confederates
In the south, "said member Of 3 Georgia
regiment to me The other day-"away
OF. can show you th,t they are very
few indeed compared with the Federal
survivors. J."
"Why, there certainly are several thou
sand C0nfederate8 in this very city"
replied, Sand would not your muster
rolls show how many surviye5?"
eve have nOne-JOU got 'em all 81 the
surrender. But, look mere, how many
actual men do you suppose there were in
the Confederate army, lot counting dou-
bic enGstmente?H
"Oa, 8 million OF two"
"I1 would crowd 'em 70 go much ever
half million. Now, it Is true there are
hunireds Of the survivors in this city,
and probably 50 600 in all the north and
tae territories; but | SIN positive there
ere nos l50 goo IN all the sixteen southern
states tO-day-not one m3u to III y OF Tire
entire population. You can see by the
census that ell the white people la the
Confederate states in 1861 were no more
than $3.50, 900 81 the outside. Now,
what is the biggest per cent. of its 9opu
lstioD that 8 country can send TO war?
| believe no country in the world ever sent
one in seven; and situated as the s0uJE
was big territory and 900, 900 slaves
it couldn't haYe sent one in eight"
"But did you not get many from the Dor
der states-states that did not secedeY
! "NOt as msny as the Federals got from
the states that did secede. B.aine's
book says the two balanced; but be only
counts the men from inside the Confed
eracy that were actually counted in tht
Federal army, while, in fact, there were
twice that many refugees"
"Bat did net your clcsa conscripti3l
! get more than one in eight"
Goose Consumption where? When tha
Was enforced one half the Confederate
territory was in the Federal lines-al
Tennessee, half Of Mississippi, Alabam,
north CT the river, most of Louisiana an(
all the three states west of the Missis
sippi were cut off, and clear cut of GU
jurisdiction. In fact, the last consCrip
ton, the searching one, was only en-
forced in five states, and in part of then
it cos! more than it came to. Tie Law
exempted men who worked tWent
slaves, and, of course, ne
had 10 DE left st home to run ferrie
railroads, etc. There is no way Q
getting all the able bodied men Of coun
try into an army. You must have som
men to hold the machinery OF society to
gether, and in so big region as the G II
federacy there had to be a good man,
such. Now, divide al the white peoP.t
in the ConfederacY by eight and yol
would have $4,000, and hats abba
100, 600 more than ever were in the Con
tedsrata army. It's mstter of figures
you can't get man where he isn't. Sup
pose they got every man who c0ul
csrr7 a gun, they would only haY
7C0, GEO. Now, the federal muster roll
show that they had 335 GOO white me
: from the south, and the vote in the Dor
der states in 1864 showed that 8 big ms
iority Of their men was az home; so wher
could the Confederacy have got the extr
men? There is another way to get at i
and that's the parole lists. SIX diferer
armies surrendered, snd all the parole
: together amounted to 95,454. Now, sd
E Just as many more for guerrillas and pri
? oners in the north, and you have but 100
> 600; and then add another 100000 {
more for deserters who did noI con
in for paroles. and Still yc
haven't 100000 Confederate so
diers at the end of the war. But, in fac